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would you support Metalocalypse trivia plz .thank you very much
Calling users "vandals" without any policy to back you up is considered a personal attack, and is a blockable offense. I recommend you stop, and enjoy editing at Wikipedia. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: your comment [1]. It's pretty clear that you intent the term "deletionist" to refer to all those opposing your opinion in a derogatory manner. I've reviewed the comments by Edward321 as you suggested, and see nothing to support the argument that WP policies and guidelines require that this article be kept. Perhaps you could try to be more clear in making your point, and a little less ad hominem, and I could understand what it is you are trying to say. Pete.Hurd 03:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I think maybe two people - probably just 1 - have called for WP:GUNDAM to be deleted, none of which have any association with me. Moreschi Deletion! 20:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Trust me, I've been here a while. The chance of WP:GUNDAM getting deleted is nil, because articles like Gundam and an admittedly limited amount of others are and should be in Wikipedia. You also might like to read WP:AGF and WP:TINC to clarify a few things. Moreschi Deletion! 21:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC) And the only axe I, or any other editor for that matter, has is the improving-the-encyclopedia-axe. That's what AGF is about. Moreschi Deletion! 21:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Just so you know.
3 were total crap with less than 500 ghits total , and I put speedy tags on all of them. 1 was linked to a barely notable band, so I prodded it. 1 was a blasted straight-out copyvio. 2 were alright, just unsourced, so I sourced and edited them. 1 (the Star Trek one) was about books, so Amazon links were alright.
While I'm sure this will possibly frustrate you, your actions in pointing these out did help find a copyright violation. Feel free to show many any more such offending material. If it's sourceable, I will source it, and if it isn't, I'll nominate it for deletion. I apply the same rules to all articles. -- Elar a girl Talk| Count 09:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
..particularly this one, are skirting the edges of civility, good faith, and my patience. Last time I checked, WP:GUNDAM had about 12 core and maybe 7 or 8 occasional members. WP:SCISSORS has 24 members, and about 4 or 5 occasionals. If this was a coordinated attack on WP:GUNDAM by "rabid deletionists", not a single article would survive, I assure you.
Instead , I would suggest that the articles (at least the one's *I* have participated in) simply don't meet standards, and I don't think they ever will. I'll try to give you an example of what I mean. Take the main article, Gundam. The second paragraph, here, hasn't got a single source, but makes no less than 5 major assertions, such as "turning point in the history", "credited for inspiring the Real Robot genre",etc. Obviously, despite the fact that the article has no good sourcing, no one is going to nominate it. If they did, it would clearly be for the purposes of being a disruptive idiot, since Gundam, as a whole, *is* notable.
When we get to the major armored suits and weapons, again, leeway is available. I can't stand Japanamation and even I know what the RX-78 Gundam represents. But for minor things, such as (and no, I won't nom it for deletion) MSN-03 Jagd Doga, it's hard to call. The article has no sources, and it has nothing to go by. With others, like MS-14 Gelgoog, there isn't a single reason why they aren't sourced -- I KNOW there are sources. It's been here since 2004. Why?
I'm not the one nominating them for deletion. Accusations towards an entire Wikiproject are very severe, and it implies you aren't reading what our WP is about. Please consider what you are saying and what the deletion debates are about. Make copies of the articles, source them in your userspace or offline, then put them back. Once sourced, properly, wikified, etc, they can't be deleted. But blanket statements will only end up turning people against you and drawing some of the REALLY trigger happy deletionists along. -- Elar a girl Talk| Count 11:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Metalocalypse Confusion
Ummm sorry dude I think you have me mixed up with someone else... I didnt delete the whole character esction I just changed one thing pickles did...--
MetalFleur 02:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Wow you're right... I'm sorry dude one of my friends must have messed around with my account or something when I wasn't looking or something. I really don't remember deleting all that. Sorry again. I guess Ill watch what Im doing better or something. -- MetalFleur 03:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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Have you read WP:FICT or WP:WAF? These articles need the kind of cleanup described in those guidelines. I've tried to start in on this in Sazabi, Zeong, and Jagd Doga, only to see blank reverts and claims of ownership from both you and Jtrainor.
Take this revert.
I am trying to improve these articles. You don't have to like it, but I don't appreciate this obstructionism. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 19:44, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
It's not blatant ignorance on the part of the deletionist camp. It's the plain-language advice of WP:WAF.
You seem to want to make this out as some glorious struggle. It's not. Right now, I'm removing the obvious problems, like unencyclopedic in-universe description, bad non-free images, and other fansite material not appropriate to a general purpose encyclopedia. Again, I am trying to improve these articles.
You don't get to decide that my grammatical edits, infobox cleanup (backed by WP:WAF), header fixes, and cleanup tags aren't appropriate because I'm somehow your enemy. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 19:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
What on Earth are you talking about? "Take no prisoners"? Conflict? Calculated manuevers? You seem to be under the impression that there's some grand struggle, but I assure you that it exists only in your imagination.
I found some articles that ignore WP:WAF, WP:FICT, and WP:FUC. I'm trying to fix this. Please don't be unnecessarily obstructionist. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 20:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Oh! The articles generally have far more non-free images than can be reasonably justified. Zaku II is the worst offender I've found, as it has dozens of images, often simply of essentially the same model painted different colors. Additionally, the images have poor sources, poor or entirely missing fair-use rationales, and generally need to be downscaled to the same resolution as they're used in the articles. It's not the end of the world, just another bit of cleanup that needs to be done. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 21:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Re: Your talk page comment. Well, I got "warned" and "flamed" on the AN/I for broaching AMIB's edit warring and other misbehavior. (Such as the use of rollback to blank your comment in the WikiProject which is seriously sketchy.) Of course, I got attacked and he just said the same old spiel about how he's right despite clear consensus on the pages he's warring on being against him. I saw a pretty good rewrite of WAF that I'd happily support since WAF is a piece of stinking shit which noone follows anyways. Kyaa the Catlord 07:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
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AMIB isn't as bad as you think, and, as is clear from the history of those MSN-0X articles he's not letting this drop. Please at least try and get along; there's no deletionist cabal out to get your articles. – Steel 20:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
In my experience, when someone tries to martyr themself, it has the exact opposite effect. Once a user has been blocked for something, administrators are more willing to block for that same offense in the future. That said, I really don't want you blocked.
I'm really frustrated with you, though. You've reverted all of my edits to the articles you see as yours, no matter what the edit or what the reasoning. Such edits have included copyedits, expansions of the article, restructuring of the article, and removal of inappropriate non-free images, in addition to this whole thing with the infoboxes.
I don't want to delete or redirect these articles. When I want to delete an article, you'll know, because there will be an AFD or prod tag on it. Instead, I want to clean out the deadwood in the hopes of getting these articles up to Good Article or Featured Article status. Part of doing that is cleaning out excessive non-free images, disposing of copyright violations, and generally bringing the articles up to WP:WAF standards. This is a necessary part of improving articlees on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I cannot bring these articles up to FA status on my own, as I cannot read Japanese sources. All I can do is do cleanup and rewriting based on those sources I can read.
I am disappointed to see this cleanup reverted en bloc, accusing me of trying to accomplish something my edits cannot possibly accomplish. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 22:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Would you be amenable to mediation? I think you'll find that my interpretation of WP:WAF isn't as draconian or uncommon as you think. I also think you've vastly overestimated my "deletionist" tendencies; I spent a year trying to figure out some way to make individual Pokemon species articles work. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 01:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I strongly support finding an an impartial mediator to help. If things continue as they have all three of you will end up in the shitter and the article will stabilise in a state none of you want it.
On a side note, Malik, can we ease up on the deletionist stuff? AMIB as far as I know hasn't called you anything recently and it doesn't create a brilliant environment for reasonable discussion. –
Steel 14:31, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
We can't keep doing this. I don't want a fight with you, and I don't like blocking people.
You can't play power games over copyright issues, though. Picking a fight over copyright issues means you will lose and Wikipedia will lose your contributions.
Image:MSN-03.QP.Sh.GIF was a fairly straightforward violation of WP:FUC 3a. It was the exact same design with different colors and trivial appearance differences. There isn't a possible fair-use rationale for it, as another image will have exactly the same reason for inclusion, unless you planned to replace Image:MSN-03.Sh.GIF with it.
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This looks extremely useful. Jtrainor 03:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
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You might want to make your views known on the notability guidelines for fiction. (See WP:Anime for a link). Kyaa the Catlord 01:54, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
To whom are you replying here? G.A.S 07:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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I have filed a request for mediation over the Gundam edit warring at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Gundam. Please sign your acceptance or rejection over this issue. hbdragon88 05:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
To whom did you reply here? Please clarify the statement. G.A.S 09:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Please start WP:GOODFAITH and stop name calling. Your repeated reverts of well explained, valid edits of MSN-02 Zeong with no explanation are disruptive and not helping to produce a good Wikipedia Article. 207.69.137.7 13:20, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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Please help me understand, as suggested by User:Jtrainor, recent Template:Infobox Mobile Suit activity by expanding Template talk:Infobox Mobile Suit#Ahem and thank you. – Conrad T. Pino 19:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Topic updated – Conrad T. Pino 01:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Topic updated – Conrad T. Pino 03:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Topic updated – Conrad T. Pino 10:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
I saw that you replied under Template talk:Infobox Mobile Suit#Visual look inspection without identifying which of the 3 nominees your comment covered. Would you mind going back and moving your comment under the applicable nominees (Nominated by history, Nominated by A Man In Black, Nominated by MalikCarr)? – Conrad T. Pino 22:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant the public Wikipedia:Sandbox or one within your user space like User:MalikCarr/sandbox. – Conrad T. Pino 02:28, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I stand by my edits. AGK is an elected member of the Mediation Committee (according to his userpage), and since I've never participated in mediation before, I can only assume that the removal of talk page comments to a Discussion subpage is the convention for RfMs. Ask about it with him, don't shoot the messenger. hbdragon88 22:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
You have a serious misconception of what 'in-universe' perspective means if you think the current version http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MSM-10_Zock&oldid=169031766 of MSM-10 Zock does not seriously violate WP:writing about fiction; WP:problems with in - universe perspective. Please review the guidelines before claiming articles are not in violation. The same applies to the other articles that you keep removing the {in universe} tags from without correcting the WP:WaF concerns. Removing tags for {in universe} or {citation needed}, without actually correcting the problem, is vandalism. Please stop this practice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.23 ( talk) 00:17, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
1) Anon editing is in no way a violation, whether or not they are to articles that you have edited 2) Votestacking where? 3) Not really sure what your accusations of sockputtetry are for. I have no control over which IP I get assigned to. 4) I accept one 3RR claim, but really, charges of 3RR violation coming from your account when you revert without any valid explanations, while mine each explained why the changes suggested fell within WP guidelines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.7 ( talk) 01:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
You still didnt provide any evidence for anything - can you be more specific? And I am pretty sure that you don't understand WP:POINT either. Please re-read and be more careful before accusing.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.7 ( talk) 01:48, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
You are still misunderstanding WP:POINT GundamsRus 00:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, those sources took quite some time to find and I don't recall any for Psyco Gundam for now. Yet, you might want to include Saikoro Gundam(word play of Psyco Gundam, which literally means Dice gundam with a Psyco Gundam head stuck on a 6-sided die) and the Psyco Gundam Mk-IV the appeared in the fake story Mobile Suit O Gundam: Newtype's Light which before ZZ Gundam series went on air, New Type magazine's editor group put out as a joke in front of the real ZZ news. For now. I will see what I can find in other magazines but don't have your hopes too high. MythSearcher talk 04:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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Gundam Epyon#Design Dude - the whole section is WP:OR - claims made without sources to back them up. GundamsRus 09:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Leo (mobile suit)#Design is all WP:OR many many claims and statements without one citation to back them up is OR. And you did not address the tag of In Universe which you also removed without fixing the 'in universe ' content. GundamsRus 09:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi MalikCarr, I would prefer not to edit any thing while it is under protection. If you wish to add or change something on the page you may do so by adding the {{editprotected}} on the talk page of the article with the request. Regards, Avec nat | Wikipédia Prends Des Forces. 03:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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Yes, I like your infobox much more. L-Zwei ( talk) 04:39, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Sure, only truly reasonable change he made, IMO, are name change and tags in ZZ section. L-Zwei ( talk) 04:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I'm sorry to say that I have not been tracing up to current events on that article and do not quite understand what is happening. My advise would be assume good faith. Although they are both on the opposite side in the project than yours, they have shown much more care than a lot of deletionists, and I can surely tell you that we are all trying to make this project better. Their view points are countering the problems on the more common side and making comproises with them will get the articles much more survivable for now, I'd suggest stop the dispute and build a common ground, especially on the in-universe issue and such. Ask them how to write it better, and try to coop with it while making a few changes here and there, just like what I did in the Antarctic Treaty (Gundam) article talk page. It might sound stupid but I figured out that this world does have people who cannot understand simple matter if it is not written in such a stupid format, and wikipedia should be available for those people, too. MythSearcher talk 07:54, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I have blocked you for 72 hours for engaging in edit wars with User:Jtrainor, User:GundamsRus, and User:A Man In Black on multiple articles for an extended period of time. Mr. Z-man 03:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
You should dump that. AGK has removed my challenges to hbdragon as "disruption" despite there being no compunction that non-parties do not comment on the mediation case page. I don't see his mediation as being fair unless he's willing to follow the four pillars and remember that wikipedia, and all the pages within, is the encyclopedia that ANYONE can edit. Kyaa the Catlord ( talk) 18:17, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
"you call that better grammar? here, this fixes the problem" from someone who is complaining about civility in Wikipedia, come on now. GundamsRus ( talk) 14:35, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey do not agree with the vandal as you did here you are simply making the vandal want to vandalize more by agreeing. It is against Wikipedia's guideline of Do Not Feed The Trolls. Rgoodermote 01:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Quote "I'm sure Daniel Park is quite the flaming homosexual" Rgoodermote 01:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I reverted it again and attempted to add dif...to tired to argue over this matter. You have your opinion and I have mine. You may restore and I will ignore. Have a goodnight and may the rest of your days be filled with joy Rgoodermote 01:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Yo. Calm down. Kyaa the Catlord ( talk) 01:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry mate, next time we meet I hope I am more mature. Rgoodermote 01:49, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
And yeah you were not troll baiting I was a little rash. Rgoodermote 01:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
It displays right, but it is a courtesy to place a new line in the two different sections so that others will have an easier time to find where is the beginning of the new section when editing. MythSearcher talk 08:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi; Jtrainor pointed me over here when I asked him about GundamsRus. Jtrainor has said that GundamsRus is a sockpuppet of some sort; is there anything to back that up? If he's abusing socks (or is an abusive sock) I'd be pleased to block him. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 03:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused by your recent edits to the article. I notice that you removed a {fact} tag and restored some speculative material ( [3]) without adding a source for the fact or contributing to the discussion on the article talk page.
Your subsequent edit [4] removed some {AM-in-universe} tags without comment on the talk page and without changing the wording that led to the tags in the first place. The sarcasm in the edit summary also isn't helpful.
Given the recent editing conflicts on the article, I would recommend strongly that you discuss such changes before making them. Don't be surprised if your recent changes are reverted, in the spirit of WP:BRD. In general, tags highlighting problems with articles don't 'expire'; they remain in place until the underlying problems are resolved. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 00:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
"The tags themselves were a compromise while we waited for the "in-universe" editors to offer how they'd write the article." - I must have missed that 'compromise'. It is my recollection that the 'in universe' tag was simply a part of the article when it was locked 'at the wrong version'. I have no real objection to letting the article sit with the 'in universe' tags. There are editors who seem to have a major objection for the article having any tags and so I was assuming that they would be forthcoming with options or suggestions for a version that would be written in a way that would not require the 'in universe tag'. I guess that I assumed incorrectly and if I have time over the next few weeks may work on a proposal. I will also be willing to comment on proposals from other editors. GundamsRus ( talk) 20:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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Please read WP:3RR and heed the warnings there. You are in danger of violating this rule by your unduing of the merger of Glock articles. -- Asams10 ( talk) 03:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Both you and Asams10 are edit warring on the Glock articles. WP:3RR is not an entitlement to make 3 changes per article, it's a hard stop limit, and edit warring in general can be accomplished with 2 reverts or less per article if there's a consistent pattern.
Please stop reverting and take it back to the central article talk page.
I am warning both of your accounts simultaneously because you're both behaving in the same manner. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 04:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
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The image is not free because the copyright on the artwork appearing on the cigarette package belongs to someone else beside the uploader. If you do not believe I am correct on this please feel free to submit the image to WP:DRV. -Regards Nv8200p talk 01:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
(reply from my talk page) I understand your point, and share many of your feelings about the dangers of copyright paranoia. The artwork is not incidental, however, so it can't be free. Just write up a fair use rationale. Give me a link to it, and I would be more than happy to undelete the image. I'll add in whatever source information exists from the deleted tag. Does that help? IronGargoyle ( talk) 22:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
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Do not edit copyvio material into an article, by reversion or otherwise, such as with MSN-03 Jagd Doga. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire - past ops) 11:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi MalikCarr, you where one of the few people that helped to merg the N64 games lists and get the Japanese titles back onto the main list, but the discussioon has arrived again, and I'd like to invite you to contribute to the Talk:List of Nintendo 64 games#Removal of Alternate Titles and Number of Players where we are discussing the use of keeping alternate titles in the "List of...games" some have suggested that they take up too much space and that other columns could seem to be "useful only to fans", and other things that have been mentioned that, and other 'List of' talk pages. I hope you'll come and give you opinion, and hopefully keep these type of concerns from arising again and again at each "List of" pages. ( Floppydog66 ( talk) 23:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC))
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You can still be a member and an inclusionist, sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the vital feedback. Ikip ( talk) 06:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hello I am Larkins Dsouza from defenceaviation.com thank you for informing me about Shinshin.jpg image. I have sent a message stating that the image belongs to me and is free to be published and distributed.
Thank you again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dailylark ( talk • contribs) 02:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to expand the article Mitsubishi ATD-X. Can you help me? You can use the the images on my website if you want to. Can you tell me where else I can contribute on my topic? Thank you
Dailylark ( talk) 06:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi MalikCarr. I did assume good faith, tagged the image as lacking permission, and asked the uploader about the ownership and licencing of the image. When his reply seemed implausible, I did some research of my own and found it to be a blatant copyvio, beyond any reasonable doubt.
Look, I'll freely admit that I take a very hard line on copyright issues. Since this seems to be an area of interest to you, I wonder if I can take a moment to explain why?
As I see it, there are two main reasons why Wikipedia needs to pay close attention to copyright, and neither of them relate to any fear of being sued. At worst, if a copyright owner had a problem with how we were using their material, they (or their lawyers) would issue the Wikimedia Foundation with a take-down notice, and the Foundation would no doubt comply – end of story. There's absolutely nothing for anyone to be alarmed about on this front. More important, however, are the ethical reasons why we should respect what belongs to other people, as well Wikipedia's basic mission of developing and delivering a free encyclopedia to the world.
I think the ethical position is obvious: when somebody owns something, even something intangible like a copyright, a person's reputation, or a company's goodwill, we should respect that. When a person or company owns the copyright to an image, it means that they have both a moral and a legal right to say when, where, how, and by whom that image is used. This is analogous to the moral and legal rights that you and I have to say who walks into our houses, gets to drive our cars, or to use any other resource that we own. If we want to use an image on Wikipedia that belongs to someone else, we can always contact the owner and ask whether it's OK with them for us to republish their image under the GFDL licence. If they say "yes", then great; if they say "no", then too bad. But wouldn't you agree that we should at least ask? And then respect their answer even if it's not the one that we were hoping for?
The second reason is less intuitive, perhaps even counter-intuitive. What we're trying to achieve here at Wikipedia is truly revolutionary – and not just because of the way that we're capturing knowledge through a public wiki that anyone can edit. At least as revolutionary is the fact that we make all the content here freely available for anyone to republish any way they like, for any purpose they choose, on the one-and-only sole condition that they acknowledge its source. This is a lofty aim, and it raises the bar very high when it comes to making sure that text and media that we upload is indeed completely unencumbered. If someone wants to take an image from here, put it on a postcard and sell it at the local fleamarket, they need to be free to do so. If somebody wants to put together some specialised collection of articles and republish them in book format, they need to be free to do that too. Every time we include material in Wikipedia that others are not free to reuse however they like, we are failing in one of our fundamental reasons for being here at all. Rather than Wikipedia "legislating itself out of existence", making really, really sure that material we publish is free provides us with one of our key advantages and points of difference over traditional reference works bound by restrictive licences.
I don't know the extent to which you agree with either of my propositions above, and nor do I expect to provide any kind of "road to Damascus" moment here. But I do encourage you to think about the positive reasons why it makes sense to pay attention to copyright issues and not just assume that those of us who do so are doing it out of any kind of fear, hysteria or paranoia. Feedback or further discussion are most welcome, and sorry for the lecture :) -- Rlandmann ( talk) 00:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
It may well be easy to catch Wikipedia publishing pirate material, but I just don't see why that onus should fall on the party that's been wronged. This is perhaps especially so for a corporate owner, for whom the discovery and the complaint will probably be made by a legal team, meaning that there's a very real dollar value on making Wikipedia behave responsibly. And like I said, I don't believe that whether the unauthorised use of a digital image decreases its value to its owner has any relevance to whether we should have the good grace to ask before using other people's stuff (tangible or intangible) and to respect their wishes if they say "no".
As far as this specific image goes, if I had the slightest shadow of a doubt that Dailylark was telling the truth about one of his employees taking the photo, I'd have listed it at WP:PUI for discussion. My conclusion that this wasn't the case was not hastily made, but after I had invested considerable time investigating the claim. I don't really want to drag Dailylark's name further through the mud by publicly posting all my conclusions, so I'm not going to say any more about the specifics here.
Fair use isn't an option here, since the image fails the replacabilty test; just because it would be difficult or inconvenient to create a free image that conveys the same information as this photo (to illustrate what the ATD-X looks like) is quite different from saying that it can't be done. If I had the artistic skills, I'd be glad to contribute just such an image, but unfortunately, I don't. Instead, I content myself with making a real effort to hunt for free images to illustrate every article that I contribute.
I also don't agree with your position that refusal to publish material that's only available under a non-commercial licence means that Wikipedia is any less free; but I acknowledge that you're not alone in feeling that way. The same debate has long been at the heart of bitter controversy in the free software world, which is where most "copyleft" licences seem to have arisen.
While being "the sum of all human knowledge" appears in a vision statement by Jimbo, I don't think it's something that can be taken too literally (not least because it would be impossible to ever achieve). As things stands, Wikipedia positions itself more modestly – as a free-content encyclopedia (attaching a particular meaning to the word "free"). Creating a truly comprehensive encyclopedia whose content is as free as the GFDL allows is an attainable goal, one that I think we're succeeding at, and one that I'm genuinely excited about :) -- Rlandmann ( talk) 05:33, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Do you have an interest in opening a user conduct RfC on User:A Man In Black? I think a draft should be written in someone's user space to help refine the relevant scope. I have also contacted User:Jtrainor. Ikip ( talk) 10:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Please add some edit differences, starting with your block log. [8] Edit diffs are important. You make a lot of claims, in which the arbitration committee are not familar with, and will not hunt down. Ikip ( talk) 17:01, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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A Man In Black refers to my edits in an attempt to clean up Gundam articles that avoided a mass deletion back in 2007 as "awful". He proceeds to revert anything I or other editors attempt to do in opposition to his preferred version of the article for a year while accusing me and others of ownership (WP:OWN), vandalism, copyvio, blocks me and protects the page at one point.
A Man In Black on the Jagd Doga for 1 year |
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Five blocks in 3 years - not the best record of an editor by far, but three of them were by A Man In Black and on the same page no less. The fourth was from an editor who blocked A Man In Black, Jtrainor, myself and another editor for edit warring with one another, so I guess that's like "half-related" or something. More reversions:
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A few other odds-and-ends. I feel dirty for contribution trawling, but I feel it's more important to throw it on the evidence pile than try to pull a "holier than thou" attitude on A Man In Black.
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After this dispute A Man In Black got blocked.
23:47, 16 May 2009 A 3RR warning: [69]
07:12, 7 May 2009 3RR warning: [77]
14:56, 5 May 2009 Another 3RR warning: [81] |
Figured you'd be interested here. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire - past ops) 06:31, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to MalikCarr, for his continued valiant efforts. Thank you. Ikip ( talk) 00:45, 9 August 2009 (UTC) |
An AFD you participated, is again up for deletion for the second time. Ikip ( talk) 03:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
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